I think the ‘banners’ on the screens featuring the disco ball have been updated and are now more orange and less disco-ey...or is it my eyes? I’ve not quite woken up yet!?
Well it seems that overall consensus is that the current News branding is starting to look a bit tired and stale. As its been around for quite a while. For its time it WAS innovative and Its served its purpose very well for the 20 or so years its been around. Its time to explore something a bit more ground breaking and forward thinking like the last one was.
Considering its public money is being used to do anything, thats always going to be a prohibiting factor, but IMO I would start over top to bottom. Completely new graphics and (shock horror) music. Retaining the BBC News music signature, but commissioning a new composer to come up with something fresher. Also the national news sets would get major redesign or in the least a heavy refresh and erase the current look as its been around for quite a while they are hardly distinguishable to the casual viewer. All the regional sets would get refreshes. My pet peeve are those weird apocalyptic Lightwell empty gallery/newsroom backdrops. I just find them creepy. Especially the one on Breakfast. Looking at an fake empty conference room table, is just strange to me.
The BBC shook up European News presentation 20 years ago, I think they can do it again. Too bad it seems like timidity has set in, but there is always the looming budget constraints. And if you consider what some of the Nordic broadcasters and others on the continent are doing, they are really making big presentation waves and its quite impressive.
Yes (or just a background rendered to track the standard move) - and it changes to a flat graphic before any other cameras are involved (though often the entire bulletin is shot on a single camera it seems)
'The Papers' part of the weekend editions of Breakfast has been renamed 'News Review' though the sting is nothing to write home about: just the orange sunrise with 'News Review' imposed on it.
Pretty sure the mugs they have on their desk are still the disco ball mugs though that's nothing compared to the glaring remnants of disco ball on the backdrop! It's crazy given how the BH / London newsroom backdrop was updated for the orange sunrise months ago.
Also - just seen a dodgy bridge to the 9am TOTH sequence this Saturday morning. They had a 'coming up' strap for a feature at 08.55... and the actual time was 08.58! They also removed the second book-ended sting at 9am, with just the music playing over the studio shot of Naga and Steph. They really did want to banish any semblance of a title sequence, didn't they?!
The programme is all over the place visually. Ah well.
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Yesterday when they were in the sunshine they were using a mixture of new cue cards and old.
The news review rebrand doesn't surprise me. The Today programme on Radio 4 now covers a wider range of sources than just the newspapers. It makes sense that this would filter through to other outlets.
Have they got rid of the second sting all together at the TOTH sequences? I've been noticing that there's just the music playing once the weather forecaster ends their brief weather overview at TOTH and then an immediate cut back to the presenters.
Or is this just for the weekend editions?
So they don't like title sequences... now they're even taking out the stings!
Is it just me or the London Newsroom backdrop in Breakfast seems like a DTL blue screen backdrop rather than a live BH newsroom backdrop to me? There is always a black bar on top of the background and some guests occasionally have reflections from blue screens which seems to be resulted from bad chroma key adjustments from the studio director... Not to mention you can't hear background noises from the staff working in the newsroom.
That's because it is a blue screen, with a pre-recorded looped digitally enhanced backdrop.
To the right of your arrow is the curved LED screen, that loops the BBC News intro graphics all day long - visable on the TOH's on the network and BBC News Channel, and in the corporate news colours of red and white.
It's been coloured orange to make it look 'brighter' for Breakfast use. Additionally a couple of the monitor screens on the outer wall of Studio E have had the new Breakfast logo on them. In the real world those are showing the output of Sky News, BBC World News or CNN to the newsroom. Plus for a Sunday morning at 4 minutes to 9, there aren't those many jouros/production staff on duty at that time.
Is it just me or the London Newsroom backdrop in Breakfast seems like a DTL blue screen backdrop rather than a live BH newsroom backdrop to me? There is always a black bar on top of the background and some guests occasionally have reflections from blue screens which seems to be resulted from bad chroma key adjustments from the studio director... Not to mention you can't hear background noises from the staff working in the newsroom.
They used to use a position with a real view, but I believe they started using the studio that BBC London News used for their Breakfast opts before Studio D was ready with that customised background loop.
They used to use a position with a real view, but I believe they started using the studio that BBC London News used for their Breakfast opts before Studio D was ready with that customised background loop.
I think they changed when BBC Three news ended as it's the same studio.
You can sometimes see the rings reflection in the glass in the normal red that it shows all day.
